Quote Originally Posted by daniel1983
The thing with rodents is.....the longer you keep them...the more money they cost to feed and the more space they take up....


You would need a place to house all the breeder and the babies once they are weaned.

Holds especially true when you are growing them to large sizes. In addition to seperate cages for weaning, and letting momrat recover some weight before putting her to breed again, you need to divy them up by sex or you will windup with rampant breeding.

At some point a couple of males who weren't eaten must have inadvertently been tossed back into the cages holding the females - the unintended litters are out of control.

The routines are daily and at that more work than caring for the snakes they feed but has been worth the effort for us.


(EDIT: HAH! S0000 so beaten by you guys while responding!)